Quotes About Cohesion

A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.

I really love the togetherness in baseball. That's a real true love.

Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite.

If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat tons of them.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don't exist all over Syria.

Sex is the glue that holds society together.

But we all know that, at least in principle, sync can be persistent without being periodic. Think of the musicians in an orchestra. All the violins come in at the same time, and stay in sync throughout. Yet they are not periodic: They do not play the same passage over and over again.

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

solid because the bees inside

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

My sole focus is producing the best team possible for England.

A band is as solid as its drummer is.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

Usually, a team of Claudio is really very solid. They usually defend very well, sometimes low, but very well.